Cancer Risk Slightly Higher For Women In Discontinued Hormone Treatment Trial, University of North Carolina Study

ScienceDaily — A follow up study of participants in the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) clinical trial led by a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researcher has found that women who were taking the combined hormone therapy of estrogen plus progestin may have an increased risk of cancer since the intervention was stopped, compared to participants in the trial’s placebo group.

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